Independent Weicker endorses Lamont over Lieberman

My Indie friend Chris emailed me a link to this ringing endorsement of Democratic challenger Ned Lamont to Senator Joe Lieberman by former Senator and Governor Lowell Weicker, and ex-Republican turned Independent.

A snippet:

I speak as an independent who has seen the two-party system corrupt itself to the point of irrelevance during a dangerous time in our history. Ned Lamont can start the reform process by providing opposition to a Republican Party too long in power. What is needed is Ned Lamont's voice for health care for all, funding for our cities, and public education from kindergarten through college that works for our children.

He might be an underdog, but that only points to being outside a Democratic establishment that at the state and federal levels has failed miserably to uphold its end of the two-party system.

In 1889 at Hartford, Mark Twain wrote "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." In it, he said:

"The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal; he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him; it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of the others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does."

I absolutely LOVE that Twain quote! Go read the rest of the post. You'll be glad you did.